Which router for less than £50

[stevie lee]

I'm looking for a router for my house. our current one is playing up a lot lately, keeps dropping connection. its a plusnet supplied Thomson from a few years ago.
due to another problem we had with the phoneline not working a few weeks ago, we had BT out and they thoroughly checked the line and they re-screwed the wires in the cabinet at the end of the road - one had fallen out. so we know its not the line causing it.
we updated the firmware yesterday and it still drops connection.

so its new router time.


what we need:

4 or more 100MB ports, 1000MB would be nice
we are on plusnet premium 20mb, we get about 18mb or so most of the time, so it needs to support that.
for it to cost less than £50

completely optional

a USB port - either for network printer or a USB hard drive we can use for file sharing purposes.

what we don't need

wireless of any standard - i understand wireless comes on pretty much every router available, itll just get turned off as we've nothing and no plans for anything wireless whatsoever.



my dads seen this belkin F5D8635UK4A for £30, anything better than that for less than £50?




*mb Mb, MB may be wrong way about, you should know what i mean though

[bledd]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linksys-Cisc...7890891&sr=1-2

Some very mixed reviews on Amazon...

From personal experience

I've installed 3 of them, one at my mum's house and two at her holiday cottages, no complaints from anyone. Wireless coverage works throughout all 3 properties.



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Personally I use this, but it's £120 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Billion-BiPA.../dp/B002TOKGL8


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http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TD-W...cp_computers_1

^another alternative, has good reviews on Amazon


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Actually, before getting a new one, how many microfilters do you have? These are known to break, try unplugging all other connections from your phone line and test each filter at a time with your ADSL, could be a simple/cheap fix. I've replaced in the region of 20 microfilters for people in the past.

[stevie lee]

the routers plugged direct into the master socket. but ill go check all the filters on the phones now, as its something we didnt think of.

and thanks for those other suggestions.


edit:
found one phone tucked away in a corner that didnt have a filter on for some reason. Plugged in a spare filter i had in my box 'o bits, and will give the net a thorough test for the rest of the day.
my dad will be pleased if it was just that.

keep the suggestions coming though, just incase.


edit2: crashed twice since previous edit. only thing it can be is the router.

[MadduckUK]

http://www.ebuyer.com/155638-tenda-w...m-router-w300d
+
http://www.ebuyer.com/225791-tenda-5...-switch-g1005d
+
= £39.15 inc postage